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THE  STORY  OF 

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PRINCETON  .  NEW  JERSEY 

FROM  THE  LIBRARY  OF 
ROBERT  ELLIOTT  SPEER 


BV  1518  .H4  S86  1920 

The  story  of  the  Sunday 
School  life  of  Henry  J. 


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THE   STORY   OF 
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HENRY  J.  HEINZ 


Covering  Sixty-four  Years 

FROM 

1854  to  1919 


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Chronology 


IN  LOCAL  SCHOOL 
Scholar     ....      12  years     .     .     .        1854-1866 

Secretary,  Treasurer 

AND  Teacher  .     .       4  years     .     .     .        1866-1870 

Superintendent      .     25  years     .     .     .        1870-1895 

IN  ORGANIZATION  fVORK 

Allegheny  County  Sunday  School  Association 

Director  ....     26  years     .     .     .       1893-1919 

President.     .     .     .       4  years     .     .     .       1898-1902 

Pennsylvania  State  Sunday  School  Association 
Director  ....     24  years     .     .     .       1895-1919 
President.     ...      13  years     .     .     .       1906-1919 

International  Sunday  School  Association 

Member  of  Executive 

Committee       .     .      17  years      .     .      .        1902-1919 

Vice-president    .     .        i  year       .     .     .       1918-1919 

World' s  Sunday  School  Association 

Member  of  Executive 

Committee       .      .      15  years     .     .     .        1904-1919 

Chairman  Executive 

Committee       .     .        6  years     .     .     .        1913-1919 


His  MASTER  PASSION 

1  HE  purpose  of  civilization  is  character.  The  growth  of  industry, 
the  perfection  of  the  arts,  the  study  of  science,  the  development  of 
law — all  these  are  noble  phases  of  human  endeavor.  But  greater 
than  all  these,  and  more  important,  is  the  building  of  character. 

When  we  think  of  Henry  John  Heinz,  we  do  not  think  of  the 
great  business  he  founded,  the  material  success  he  achieved,  the 
high  place  he  won  in  the  affairs  of  men,  but  we  think  of  his  honored 
name,  and  this  means  his  character. 

Not  only  was  he  a  man  of  exalted  character,  but  the  master 
passion  of  his  life  was  developing  character  in  others.  The  keynote 
of  his  frequent  talks  and  addresses  to  his  employees  was  the  funda- 
mental importance  of  character.  He  never  lost  an  opportunity  to 
emphasize  it.  He  believed  profoundly  that  the  Sunday  School  was 
a  divinely  conceived  agency  for  character  building  in  the  young. 
His  use  of  that  agency  was  made,  in  many  respects,  the  first  busi- 
ness of  his  life. 

This  is  his  testimony,  as  he  wrote  it  in  the  last  year  of  his  life, 
after  a  sixty-four-year  test,  in  response  to  a  request  for  a  statement 
of  his  opinion  of  the  value  of  the  Sunday  School  in  a  man's  life: 

"From  my  early  boyhood  I  have  been  a  member  of  the  Sunday  School.  In 
my  early  twenties  I  was  a  teacher;  at  twenty-six,  was  Superintendent  of  a  vil- 
lage school.  In  middle  life  I  became  identified  with  the  organized  Simday 
School  work. 

"To  the  child  the  Sunday  School  is  a  great  source  from  which  to  obtain 
life's  principles. 

"To  the  young  man  or  young  woman,  either  as  scholar  or  teacher,  it  pays 
the  greatest  reward  possible  for  the  time  and  means  invested. 

"To  one  in  middle  life  it  is  a  constant  inspiration,  while  in  riper  years  it  is 
the  greatest  influence  in  sustaining  one's  hope  and  faith  in  immortality. 

"To  my  mind  the  Sunday  School  is  the  world's  greatest  living  force  for 
character  building  and  good  citizenship.  It  has  paid  me  the  largest  dividends 
of  any  investment  I  ever  made.  I  bear  testimony  that  in  my  own  life  the  Sun- 
day School  has  been  an  influence  and  an  inspiration  second  only  to  that  of  a 
consecrated  mother." 


[7] 


e>^  MOTHER'S   INFLUENCE 

iHE  answer  to  the  question:  "What  were  the  fountain  heads  of 
that  man's  character?"  depends  on  who  the  man  is.  If  it  is  Wesley, 
the  first  answer  is,  "Susannah  Annesley."  If  it  is  Lincoln,  the 
answer  is  "Nancy  Hanks."    Back  of  the  man  is  his  mother. 

The  mother  of  Mr.  Heinz,  Anna  Margaretta  Heinz,  was  a 
singularly  devout  woman.  To  her  the  Bible  was  a  book  of  divinely 
revealed  principles.  She  conceived  it  to  be  her  duty  to  inculcate 
those  principles  in  the  mind  of  her  boy,  by  precept  and  practice. 
She  had  a  holy  ambition  for  her  boy — that  he  might  become  a  min- 
ister. Although  business  life  claimed  him,  her  ambition  was  not 
wholly  unfulfilled.  She  lived  to  see  him  a  mature  man,  whose  un- 
wavering devotion  to  the  church, which  he  often  called"the  greatest 
institution  in  the  world,"  filled  her  heart  with  joy. 

This  good  woman  molded  the  character  of  her  boy,  by  her  own 
Bible-flavored,  Christian-scented  motherhood.  He  never  forgot 
those  old-fashioned  lessons  learned  at  her  knee.  In  naming  the 
influences  that  had  fashioned  his  life,  his  thought  always  went 
straight  back  to  home  and  mother.  He  never  failed  to  give  her 
credit  for  what  he  became.  Speaking  as  president  of  the  Allegheny 
County  Sunday  School  Association,  the  week  after  her  death,  he 
paid  this  tribute  to  her: 

"In  living  for  the  Master  and  serving  Him,  some  things  have  been  incal- 
culably helpful,  and  I  turn,  especially  at  this  time,  with  grateful  heart,  to  the 
teaching  of  my  mother,  whom  only  a  week  ago  the  Lord  soothed  to  sleep.  Many 
of  her  sayings  ever  stand  guard  around  my  thoughts  or  stimulate  my  actions." 

Again,  in  the  opening  paragraph  of  his  will,  after  making  a  con- 
fession of  his  faith  in  Christ  as  his  Saviour,  and  testifying  to  the 
.wonderful  way  in  which  God  had  sustained  him  through  a  long  life, 
he  adds:  "This  legacy  was  left  me  by  my  consecrated  mother,  who 
was  a  woman  of  strong  faith,  and  to  it  I  attribute  any  success  I  may 
have  attained  during  my  life." 


[9] 


/n  the  local  school 

1  HE  subject's  first  connections  with  a  Sunday  School  was  as  a 
scholar  in  the  Lutheran  Church  in  Sharpsburg,  Pennsylvania,  a 
village  five  miles  from  Pittsburgh,  where  the  family  lived.  It  was 
as  a  member  of  Pastor  Walz's  class  that  he  served  his  Sunday 
School  apprenticeship.  In  young  manhood,  he  became  a  member 
of  the  Sunday  School  of  Union  Centenary  Methodist  Episcopal 
Church,  Sharpsburg.  After  serving  as  Secretary, Treasurer, Teacher 
and  Assistant  Superintendent,  he  became,  at  twenty-six,  in  1870, 
Superintendent.  A  few  years  later  he  transferred  his  membership  to 
Grace  Methodist  Protestant  Church  in  the  same  town,  and  became 
Superintendent  of  that  school.  He  filled  this  office  until  his  removal 
to  Pittsburgh  in  1890,  when  his  membership  was  transferred  to  the 
First  Methodist  Protestant  Church,  and  he  was  elected  Superin- 
tendent of  that  school.  By  1895,  his  business  interests  requiring 
his  absence  from  home  so  much,  he  laid  down  his  Superintendent's 
work,  after  a  quarter  of  a  century's  service. 

In  1915  he  was  chosen  Honorary  Superintendent  of  Grace  Sun- 
day School  in  Sharpsburg.  He  found  much  pleasure  in  that  relation- 
ship, because  of  his  many  years'  active  connection  with  that  school. 
He  made  frequent  visits  to  it,  and  was  present  on  the  Sunday  before 
his  last  illness  began. 

Mr.  Heinz  brought  to  his  local  Sunday  School  work  the  same 
boundless  energy,  the  same  stimulating  enthusiasm  that  marked 
his  business  activities.  With  magnetism  that  was  contagious,  he 
inspired  pastor,  teachers  and  scholars  alike.  From  his  cheery  greet- 
ings in  opening  the  school  to  his  closing  review  of  the  lesson,  he 
radiated  enthusiasm,  sounding  the  onward  march  to  which  the 
organization  responded  joyfully. 

He  dominated,  for  he  had  that  kind  of  a  personality,  but  did  not 
domineer.  One  of  his  pastors  said:  "I  had  the  privilege  of  teaching 
under  him  for  three  years.  He  was  always  considerate,  gracious, 
brotherly;  in  fact,  so  democratic  that  it  is  misleading  to  speak  of 
having  taught  'under'  him;  no  one  who  worked  with  him  could  feel 
'under'  him." 

[11] 


As  a  side  light  revealing  the  reason  of  his  success  as  a  superin- 
tendent, two  incidents  may  be  related:  A  scholar  who  came  from  a 
humble  home  in  the  outskirts  of  the  town  had  died  of  the  dreaded 
disease  of  "black  diphtheria."  The  home  was  quarantined  and 
shunned.  At  Mr.  Heinz's  request  the  pastor  went  to  the  stricken 
home  to  conduct  a  funeral  service.  To  the  pastor's  astonishment, 
the  Superintendent  was  present.  The  exacting  demands  of  a  grow- 
ing business,  the  fact  that  he  had  a  family  of  little  children  at  home, 
did  not  deter  this  Superintendent  from  doing  what  his  conception 
of  his  office  required  of  him  as  a  duty  to  one  of  his  scholars. 

In  the  case  of  another  scholar,  a  boy,  the  Superintendent  noticed 
that  he  was  fond  of  reading.  He  made  that  observation  while  pass- 
ing the  boy's  home  occasionally,  and  seeing  him  lying  in  the  grass  of 
the  front  yard  reading.  Thereafter  the  Superintendent  took  an 
interest  in  that  boy's  reading,  furnishing  him  with  books  and  read- 
ing material  of  a  helpful  kind.  That  boy  is  now,  and  for  years  has 
been,  the  Superintendent  of  that  Sunday  School,  and  in  relating 
the  above  incident,  he  said:  "This  happened  at  the  busiest  time  of 
Mr.  Heinz's  whole  career,  when  he  was  laying  the  foundations  of 
his  business,  working  sixteen  hours,  and  sometimes  more,  a  day,  yet 
he  had  time,  with  all  his  activities,  to  talk  to  a  boy  of  eight  years 
about  his  affairs,  and  he  had  time  to  talk  to  boys  and  girls  in  our 
Sunday  School  about  their  plans  and  their  future  and  about  the  life 
to  come." 


[12] 


The  field  widens 

What  could  be  more  natural  and  inevitable  than  that  a  growing 
work  and  a  growing  man  should  be  drawn  together.  The  organ- 
ized Sunday  School  work,  as  now  known,  was  beginning  to  de- 
velop. Mr.  Heinz,  man  of  vision  that  he  was,  saw  its  possibilities. 
Knowing  the  value  of  organization  in  business,  he  sensed,  in  the 
organized  Sunday  School  movement,  the  opportunity  of  applying 
business  methods  and  principles  to  the  work  to  which  he  was  so 
attached.  He  had  done  this  in  his  local  school  work.  He  was  ready 
to  attempt  it  in  a  broader  way. 

On  the  other  hand,  the  organized  Sunday  School  work,  learning 
of  his  success  in  his  own  school,  was  glad  to  relate  him  to  its  work. 
So,  in  1893,  he  was  invited  to  become  a  member  of  the  Board  of 
Directors  of  the  Allegheny  County  Sunday  School  Association, 
which  had  been  organized  in  1890.  In  five  years,  1898,  he  was 
chosen  President,  and  was  re-elected  each  year  thereafter,  until  he 
had  held  the  office  for  four  years,  with  one  exception,  the  longest 
continuous  term. 

It  was  during  his  term  as  President  that  he  began  to  initiate 
new  movements  in  Sunday  School  work,  a  characteristic  that 
marked  his  subsequent  long  leadership  in  the  organized  work. 

First  and  foremost  among  the  policies  of  the  new  executive  was 
that  of  putting  the  association  on  a  business  basis.  He  needed  busi- 
ness men  to  do  this.  He  attracted  to  the  organization  men  of 
business  influence  and  standing  in  the  community.  He  knew  that 
the  community  would  measure  the  organization  by  the  men  who 
conducted  it.  Business  had  taught  him  that  it  is  not  buildings  or 
machines  or  materials  that  count  most,  but  men.  He  had  been  a 
finder,  a  trainer,  an  inspirer  of  men  in  his  business  all  his  life.  The 
King's  business  needed  men,  and  he  believed  they  could  be  had  by 
using  the  same  methods  which  business  used.  Through  his  persua- 
sive ability  in  winning  men,  cultivating  them  through  letters  and 
conversation,  making  the  service  attractive,  he  built  up  a  strong 
organization  that  brought  the  Sunday  Schools  of  Allegheny  County 
to  public  notice  in  a  way  they  had  never  been  before. 

[13] 


A  business  that  has  the  quality  of  permanence  needs  headquar- 
ters. They  were  established,  for  the  first  time  in  the  history  of  the 
Association,  in  a  dignified  office  building.  They  have  been  main- 
tained ever  since. 

Now  that  he  had  an  organization  with  headquarters,  he  must 
have  something  for  it  to  do.  His  active  mind  was  not  long  in  deter- 
mining what  to  do.  The  Association  could  plan  its  work  more 
intelligently  if  it  had  definite,  accurate  knowledge  of  its  field.  How 
many  children  lived  in  Pittsburgh  who  were  not  in  the  Sunday 
School?  Howmanypeople  were  unattached  to  any  church?  What, 
if  any,  were  their  church  preferences?  No  one  knew.  Mr.  Heinz 
made  it  his  business  to  find  out,  and  the  Allegheny  County  Sunday 
School  Association  was  the  instrumentality  he  employed. 

Under  the  auspices  of  the  Association  there  was  made  what,  in 
that  day,  was  known  as  a  Home  Visitation  or  a  House-to-House 
Canvass.  Today  it  would  be  called  a  "Survey."  Mr. Heinz  brought 
a  specialist  from  Minneapolis  to  organize  the  campaign.  The 
people  to  do  the  work  were  recruited  from  among  the  Sunday 
School  members  of  the  city.  Two  thousand  canvassers  were  picked, 
drilled  and  trained.  The  co-operation  of  the  pastors  of  all  the 
churches  of  the  city  was  secured.  The  interest  of  the  press  was 
awakened,  for  the  movement  had  to  depend  largely  upon  news- 
paper publicity  for  its  success,  or  at  least  for  the  sympathetic 
attitude  of  the  people  towards  it.  On  a  certain  day  in  April,  1899, 
the  campaign  culminated  in  a  canvass  of  a  half  million  people,  liv- 
ing in  83,000  homes,  and  the  gathering  of  valuable  religious  data 
that  was  made  available  for  the  churches  and  Sunday  Schools  of 
the  city  in  their  future  work. 

This  whole  campaign  was  keyed  up  and  vitalized  by  the  mag- 
netic leadership  of  the  County  President,  who  had  only  emerged 
from  his  local  school  four  years  before  and  who  had  been  one  year 
in  the  President's  chair. 

The  International  Association  has  operated  a  visitation  or  Sur- 
vey Department  for  several  years,  but  it  was  the  vision  and  genius 
of  Henry  J.  Heinz  that  adapted  the  idea  to  Sunday  School  work. 

[14] 


At  the  close  of  the  canvass  Mr.  Heinz  gave  a  banquet  to  the 
Directors  and  the  Presidents  of  the  forty-two  districts  into  which 
the  county  was  divided.  This  quotation  from  his  remarks  at  the 
banquet  is  made,  because  it  sets  forth  some  of  the  beliefs  to  which 
he  was  devotedly  attached  and  frequently  expressed: 

"We  realize  more  and  more  our  dependence  upon  the  great  head  of  the 
church.  We  have  all  the  time  there  is,  and  we  are  responsible  to  the  Maker  and 
Giver  of  time,  as  to  how  we  use  it.  There  can  be  no  more  profitable  way  of 
spending  it  than  to  teach,  encourage  and  inspire  the  youth  of  our  county  during 
their  impressionable  years.  Horace  Mann  once  said:  'When  anything  is  grow- 
ing, one  former  is  worth  a  thousand  reformers.'  We  love  the  Sunday  School 
work  more  and  more,  because  we  realize  its  wonderful  possibilities,  since  the 
young  men  and  women  of  today  will  not  only  be  the  fathers  and  mothers  of  the 
present  generation  but  of  generations  to  come.  We  have  succeeded  marvelously 
well  in  our  house-to-house  visitation  of  our  city.  We  have  not  only  placed  our 
Protestant  denominations  in  a  position  to  do  better  and  more  effective  work,  but 
have  secured  data  that  will  enable  the  Catholic  Church  to  do  the  same.  We  each 
do  our  work  in  our  own  way,  but  both  stand  for  nothing  less  than  character 
building  and  good  citizenship." 


[15] 


(>>/N0THER  step   FORWARD: 

FROM    COUNTY   TO   STATE 

Introduction  to  the  Pennsylvania  State  Sunday  School  was 
incidental.  In  looking  back  over  the  twenty- four-year  association, 
it  may  be  said  to  have  been  providential.  It  meant  much  to  the 
development  of  Mr.  Heinz  as  a  world  leader  and  to  the  growth  of 
the  State-wide  work. 

It  happened  thus:  The  State  Association  Convention  met  in 
Williamspoft,  Pa.,  in  1895.  A  business  trip  took  Mr.  Heinz  there 
at  the  same  time.  His  business  finished,  having  a  little  time  before 
his  train  left,  he  decided  to  look  in  on  the  convention  which  he  saw 
advertised  in  street  posters  about  the  city.  As  he  entered  the  hall 
the  Treasurer  was  reading  his  report.  It  showed  a  deficit  of  $600.00. 
John  Wanamaker,  serving  his  first  year  as  President  of  the  Asso- 
ciation, arose  and  made  an  appeal  for  subscriptions  to  meet  the 
deficit,  concluding  his  remarks  with  the  declaration  that  unless  a 
budget  was  adopted,  and  the  Association  kept  free  from  debt,  he 
would  never  attend  another  convention. 

That  statement  coincided  perfectly  with  Mr.  Heinz's  ideas  of 
the  way  in  which  every  organization  should  conduct  its  affairs,  and 
although  he  was  a  stranger  and  a  chance  visitor,  he  arose  and  said : 

"Mr.  President:  If  you  will  stand  by  that  principle  and  pay  as  you  go  and 
not  use  the  time  of  your  conventions  in  raising  deficits,  you  may  put  me  down 
for  $100.00." 

Mr.  Wanamaker  asked  for  the  name  of  the  donor,  who  wrote 
his  initials  on  a  slip  of  paper  and  passed  it  to  the  platform,  stating 
that  he  would  give  it  to  the  teller  later.  This  transaction  was  char- 
acteristic of  the  giver:  quick  to  help  a  worthy  cause  that  adopted 
sound  methods,  but  slow  to  thrust  into  notice  his  own  personality. 

There  was  something  infectious  about  Mr.  Heinz's  donation 
and  words,  for  the  pledges  for  the  next  year's  work  rose  from  four 
thousand  to  seven  thousand  dollars. 

This  incident  soon  led  to  his  election  to  the  Executive  Com- 
mittee, and  thus  commenced  a  service  of  twenty-four  years  in  the 

[17] 


State  work,  including  nine  years  as  chairman  of  the  Executive  Com- 
mittee and  thirteen  years  as  President. 

His  genius  for  organization,  his  abiUty  to  inspire  others,  his 
overflowing  energy  marked  him  as  the  logical  successor  of  Mr. 
Wanamaker  as  President  when  the  latter,  after  filling  the  office 
ably  for  twelve  years,  insisted  on  retiring.  He  was  placed  in  nomi- 
nation by  Mr.  Wanamaker,  and  elected  by  the  Convention  in  1906. 
See  how  his  acceptance  of  the  trust  reveals  his  modesty,  as  he 
speaks  to  the  Convention: 

"No  man  in  the  State  can  fill  Mr.  Wanamaker's  place.  I  feel  that  his 
standing  and  knowledge  fit  him  so  well  for  the  trust  that  we  ought  to  continue 
him  in  office  all  his  days.  I  would  prefer  to  remain  on  the  committee  and  work 
in  the  spirit  of  love  and  harmony  that  has  pervaded  our  every  thought  and  word 
all  these  years;  but  since  it  is  not  my  doing,  I  dare  not  set  my  judgment  against 
yours.  I  can  but  ask  your  prayers,  full  sympathy  and  united  efforts  in  the  cause 
we  all  so  dearly  love." 

The  plans  of  the  new  President  soon  began  to  appear.  One  of 
the  first  and  happiest  was  a  fellowship  dinner  on  the  opening  day 
of  the  State  Convention.  The  Directors,  Field  Workers,  Presi- 
dents of  the  sixty-seven  County  Associations  of  the  State  and  Con- 
vention Speakers  became  the  President's  guests  at  a  dinner,  given 
to  promote  fellowship  at  the  very  opening  of  the  annual  conven- 
tion. This  series  of  annual  dinners  during  the  thirteen  years  of  his 
tenure  of  office  are  among  the  delightful  memories  in  the  annals  of 
State  Association  history. 

Perfect  harmony  existed  among  the  Directors,  who  so  ably  held 
up  their  President's  hands  that  his  work  was  made  a  great  joy. 
The  growth  of  the  work  was  steady,  and  the  budget  kept  pace  with 
the  expansion.  Money  raising  is  usually  a  dreaded  experience  and 
irksome  task.  Not  so  with  the  Pennsylvania  Sunday  School  Asso- 
ciation. There  the  joy  of  giving  is  not  an  empty  phrase  but  a  reality. 
The  President's  happy  handling  of  the  matter  of  raising  money  has 
had  much  to  do  with  it.  It  is  the  practice  in  Pennsylvania  to  ask 
each  County  Association  to  make  a  pledge.  About  a  dozen  counties 
had  been  indifferent,  and  Mr.  Heinz  undertook  to  cure  them.  How 

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well  he  succeeded  has  been  told  by  Mr.  W.  G.  Landes,  the  General 
Secretary  of  the  State  Association.    Mr.  Landes  said: 

"Something  like  fifteen  counties,  when  their  names  were  called,  did  not 
respond  with  any  contributions  toward  the  budget.  After  two  or  three  of  these 
non-contributing  counties  had  been  called  with  no  response,  Mr.  Heinz  got  up 
and  said:  'Mr.  Chairman,  if  you  do  not  mind,  I  think  we  ought  to  make  a  record 
here  at  this  convention  that  no  county  should  appear  on  our  books  with  nothing 
to  its  credit,  and  if  you  will  permit  me,  I  would  like  to  contribute  $25.00  for 
each  county  that  has  been  called  and  not  responded.'  Applause  greeted  that 
announcement.  Well,  we  went  through  the  roll  of  the  counties,  and  another 
county  was  called  and  no  response  made.  Mr.  Heinz  said:  'Put  them  down  for 
$25.00, 1  will  pay  it  if  they  don't.'  A  wave  of  laughter  went  over  the  conven- 
tion. And  so  we  went  through  the  list,  with  Mr.  Heinz  pledging  for  counties 
that  did  not  do  so.  I  went  out  from  that  convention,  saying  to  myself:  'I 
wonder  if  that  is  the  right  way  to  do  it,'  and  I  made  up  my  mind,  as  General 
Secretary,  that  I  was  going  to  see  to  it  that  those  counties,  if  possible,  would  pay 
the  pledges  made  by  Mr.  Heinz.  I  went  into  one  county  and  told  them  what  had 
happened  at  the  convention.  One  said:  'Well,  the  folks  are  pretty  poor  down 
here.  Mr.  Heinz  has  a  good  deal  of  money,  and  I  guess  we  will  let  him  go  down 
in  his  jeans  for  it.' 

"I  said  to  myself:  'I  thought  it  would  act  that  way.'  The  next  time  I  saw 
Mr.  Heinz  I  told  him  the  story.  He  said:  'I  will  guarantee  that  won't  happen 
again;  they  will  be  ashamed.'  He  was  right.  Within  two  years  every  county 
was  making  and  paying  its  own  pledge,  and  many  were  increasing  them  from 
year  to  year." 

Some  of  the  accomplishments  of  his  fruitful  administration  are 
these: 

The  Association  became  the  owner  of  a  splendid  property  on 
Arch  Street,  Philadelphia,  used  jar  headquarters,  being  (he  first 
Sunday  School  Association  in  the  world  to  own  its  own  headquar- 
ters building. 

The  financial  receipts  increased  from  $12,000  a  year  in  1903,  to 
$34,000  in  1918. 

The  membership  of  Adult  Bible  Classes  reached  372,000. 

The  Teacher  Training  Department,  one  which  Mr.  Heinz  re- 
garded as  vitally  important,  exceeded  that  of  any  other  State  in  the 
number  of  teachers  graduated. 

Each  of  the  sixty-seven  counties  now  maintains  annual  con-^ 
ventions. 

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The  operations  of  the  Association  are  so  organized  that  they 
are  carried  on  with  the  business-like  efficiency  that  one  finds  in  the 
managment  of  a  bank  or  insurance  company.  In  general,  the  Penn- 
sylvania State  Association  has  been  brought  to  the  place  where  it  is 
conceded  to  be  the  leader  of  all  the  States  in  Sunday  School  work. 

It  is  not  intended  that  this  resume  of  fine  results  should  suggest 
that  credit  is  due  to  Mr.  Heinz  alone.  He  had  the  hearty  co-opera- 
tion of  a  group  of  strong  men,  one  of  whom,  standing  by  his  side 
through  all  these  years,  has  reached  this  conclusion: 

"While  the  immense  success  of  the  State  Association  is  the  re- 
sult of  well  thought-out  combination  and  co-ordination,  wise  fore- 
sight, careful  and  deliberate  planning,  devotion  to  its  interests  on 
the  part  of  the  Directors,  Committees,  General  Secretary,  office 
and  field  force,  nevertheless,  it  must  be  conceded  that  the  direct 
influence  of  a  single  strong,  dominating  man  may  either  make  or 
break  any  organization.  The  influence  of  Mr.  Heinz  was  invari- 
ably exerted  in  the  right  direction  and  was  generally  convincing." 

For  over  twenty  years  Mr.  Heinz  traveled  across  the  State  of 
Pennsylvania,  from  Pittsburgh  to  Philadelphia,  once  a  month,  for 
ten  months  in  the  year,  when  in  the  country,  to  be  present  at  the 
monthly  meeting  of  the  Directors  of  the  State  Association. 


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Thinking  in  world  terms 

It  was  inevitable  that  Henry  John  Heinz — a  man  of  vision,  a 
forward-looking  man,  a  man  of  expanding  life — should  extend  his 
Sunday  School  activity  to  every  part  of  the  world.  Very  naturally 
he  was  made,  in  1899,  the  representative  of  Pennsylvania  on  the 
Executive  Committee  of  the  International  Sunday  School  Associa- 
tion, embracing  the  North  American  Continent.  He  later  became 
a  Trustee,  and  in  1918  a  Vice-President,  of  that  Association. 

His  first  vision  of  the  possibilities  of  the  Sunday  School  came 
to  him  while  traveling  with  his  son  in  the  Orient  in  1902.  As  the 
unofficial  representative  of  a  Mission  Board  he  visited  missions  and 
studied  conditions.  At  the  request  of  certain  Sunday  School  leaders 
he  investigated  the  status  of  Sunday  School  work,  and  was  deeply 
impressed  by  what  he  saw  of  the  childhood  of  Japan. 

In  his  report,  read  at  the  Denver  Convention  of  the  Interna- 
tional Association,  he  said:  "Japan  is  the  key  to  the  Orient.  The 
work  done  through  this  Sunday  School  movement  and  through  the 
Missionaries  in  this  ambitious,  aggressive  nation,  will  be  looked 
upon  with  favor  by  the  neighboring  people  of  Korea  and  China.  It 
is  'judicious  advertising'  of  the  great  Sunday  School  movement, 
destined  to  become  world  wide  in  its  scope  and  of  blessed  results." 

His  confidence  in  his  prophecy  for  Japan  was  expressed  in  a 
tangible  form  at  the  Toronto  Convention  in  1905.  When  the  ques- 
tion of  extending  the  work  to  Japan  came  up,  in  a  few  words  he 
expressed  his  faith  in  the  Japanese,  pointed  to  the  strategy  of  win- 
ning Japan  for  the  Sunday  School,  in  view  of  its  growing  influence 
in  the  Orient,  and  concluded  by  pledging  $1000  a  year  for  three 
years  towards  the  support  of  a  worker  in  that  country. 

Frank  L.  Brown  was  delegated  to  go  to  Japan  and  promote  the 
organization  of  the  Japanese  National  Sunday  School  Association. 
He  reported  to  the  Convention  in  Rome,  1907,  when  it  was  decided 
to  organize  the  World's  Sunday  School  Association  for  world-wide 
work,  and  to  provide  for  a  Sunday  School  Missionary  tour  around 
the  world  to  make  a  survey. 

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-^}a«<;^i^)c  =<3aiagte  =tQa!S'«»~ 

Mr.  Heinz  was  in  mid-ocean  when  the  World's  Convention  met 
in  Washington,  1910,  but  he  offered  by  a  wireless  message  to  pay  a 
certain  sum  each  year  for  three  years  if  the  Convention  would  raise 
$20,000  a  year  for  three  years  to  inaugurate  the  work  on  a  wider 
scale.   Twenty-five  thousand  dollars  a  year  was  pledged. 

In  1913  the  plan  for  a  world  tour,  as  formulated  at  Rome,  was 
carried  out.  At  the  head  of  twenty-nine  business  men  and  Sunday 
School  experts,  Mr.  Heinz  led  the  way  to  the  Orient,  and  devoted 
five  months  to  a  campaign  through  Japan,  Korea  and  China,  visit- 
ing more  than  seventy  cities,  holding  meetings  and  conferences, 
meeting  statesmen,  commercial  men  and  missionaries.  Frank  L. 
Brown  has  written  a  book,  "The  Tour  of  the  Orient,"  which  is  a 
history  of  this  wonderful  Sunday  School  Missionary  enterprise,  the 
like  of  which  has  never  happened  before  or  since. 

The  tour  party  proceeded  to  the  Convention  of  the  World's 
Association,  which  met  in  Zurich  in  June,  1913,  where  INIr.  Heinz 
was  recognized  as  a  great  constructive  Christian  statesman  and 
leader,  and  chosen  the  chairman  of  the  Executive  Committee  of  the 
World's  Association,  the  most  signal  honor  of  his  more  than  half  a 
century  Sunday  School  career.  So  favorable  was  the  impression 
made  by  the  tour  party  in  Japan  that  an  invitation  was  extended  to 
hold  the  next  Convention  in  Tokio  in  1916. 

Returning  home  from  his  round-the-world  tour,  Mr.  Heinz 
plunged  into  the  work  of  his  new  position  with  ardor.  He  built  a 
Sunday  School  office  at  his  residence,  employed  a  Sunday  School 
Secretary  to  devote  his  whole  time  to  the  work,  and  began  prepa- 
rations for  the  1916  Convention  in  Japan.  The  World  War  made 
postponement  necessary.  October,  1920,  was  finally  selected  as 
the  time.  No  small  part  of  every  day  was  devoted  ungrudgingly  to 
what  he  had  come  to  regard  as  an  enterprise  worthy  of  his  best. 
While  in  the  midst  of  his  planning,  with  his  face  to  the  sunlight  of  a 
glorious  opportunity  to  serve  his  Master,  with  railroad  tickets  for 
himself  and  secretary  in  his  pocket  to  go  to  New  York  for  a  con- 
ference on  the  Tokio  Convention  and  world's  work,  he  was  suddenly 
smitten  with  pneumonia,  and  on  May  14,  1919,  the  wires  flashed 
the  tidings  around  the  world  that  his  place  was  vacant. 

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•'-•'-"•'-'"  [^^^:T^'•r (itjj... 

His  WORK  GOES  ON 

LilKE  those  of  whom  Paul  speaks:  "Who  first  gave  their  own 
selves,"  Mr.  Heuiz  made  the  consecration  of  his  time,  strength  and 
intellect.  To  these,  he  laid  on  the  altar  of  Christian  service  large 
sums  of  money  in  his  lifetime.  Then,  with  characteristic  foresight, 
to  the  end  that  his  passing  should  not  deprive  the  work  he  loved  of 
some  contribution  from  his  hand,  he  made  bequests  in  his  will  as 
follows: 

To  the  Allegheny  County  Sabbath  School  Association  -  $50,000 

To  the  Pennsylvania  State  Sunday  School  Association  -  75,000 

To  the  International  Sunday  School  Association  -        -  75,000 

To  the  World's  Sunday  School  Association   -         -         -  100,000 

Providing  in  each  case  that  the  sum  be  invested  in  legal  investments 
for  trustees,  "the  income  therefrom  to  be  used  for  the  regular  work 
of  the  Association  as  it  shall  deem  proper." 

In  addition,  he  bequeathed  to  the  University  of  Pittsburgh 
$250,000,  in  memory  of  his  mother,  to  be  used  for  the  religious 
training  of  the  students  of  the  University;  $150,000  was  to  be  used 
for  the  erection  of  a  building,  and  $100,000  for  the  maintenance  of 
a  chair  to  be  devoted  to  the  training  of  Sunday  School  teachers  and 
instructors  in  Sunday  School  work  generally.  He  adds:  "I  am  led 
to  make  this  provision  because  of  my  appreciation  of  the  value  of 
teacher-training  work  conducted  by  the  Pennsylvania  State  Sun- 
day School  Association."   Thus,  "Being  dead,  he  speaketh." 

Was  it  worth  the  while  for  a  busy  man  of  business  to  take  time 
to  promote  the  religious  education  of  the  youth  through  the  Sun- 
day School?  Let  the  expressions  of  love  and  esteem  showered  upon 
him  in  his  death  answer. 

His  pastor  said:  "We  think  of  him  always  as  a  man  interested 
in  the  finer  things  of  life." 

His  employees  said:  "We  have  lost  our  best  friend." 
John  Wanamaker  said:  "A  great  man  has  gone." 
One  Pittsburgh  paper  said:  "A  whole  company  will  have  to  be 
called  to  fill  the  void  left  by  his  going  away." 

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And  another  paper  said:  "Pittsburgh  mourns  for  a  citizen  of 
whom  she  is  justly  proud." 

A  great  business  executive  said :  "He  was  a  Christian  man  whose 
life  reflected,  as  far  as  a  human  being  could,  the  teachings  of  the 
'Sermon  on  the  Mount.'  " 

One  of  the  most  tender  demonstrations  of  affection  was  the 
pilgrimage  of  Dr.T.Ukai,  a  representative  of  the  200,000  Japanese 
Sunday  School  members,  to  Pittsburgh,  to  lay  a  wreath  of  flowers 
on  the  tomb  of  the  man  who  had  gone  out  of  his  way  to  take  into  his 
heart  the  childhood  of  Japan. 

Henry  J.  Heinz  became  a  leader  of  men  by  being  a  follower  of 
the  truth.  He  cared  for  art,  for  beauty,  for  civic  betterment,  for 
family,  for  business  success,  but  more  than  for  all  these  he  cared  for 
righteousness,  and  believed  that  in  the  religion  of  Jesus  is  found  the 
highest  righteousness  possible  to  men. 


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